Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
